Sprayberry High School - Echo Yearbook (Marietta, GA)

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VARSITY BOYS END UP EVEN The Varsity boys baseball team fin- ished .500 this year, with an 11-11 record. They wrapped up the season by shutting out Marietta and defeating Wills. Although their record was due to team work, two players, David Webb and Wes LeCroy, were Sprayberry's All Stars of the North Sub-region Atlanta Dug Out Club. David was selected as High School All-American. Only ten percent of all the high school baseball players are even nominated. Wes had a batting average of .275. David's .641 batting average was the second best in the region. David only had one strike out, sixteen runs batted in, and twenty-three stolen bases. Most of their defeats came from an excellent pitching staff led by Nick Kavadellas and Don Johnson. Nick had twenty-seven strike outs in the year. Don had forty-six and the lowest earned run average of 1.52. The whole pitching staff chalked up over 100 strike outs for the season. Besides great defense, the team as a whole had great offense. The team's batting average was .303, and the strike out percentage was .128 for a 5th place in the region. Campbell SHS Wheeler SHS Wheeler SHS Cedar Grove SHS Briarcliff SHS Riverdale SHS Stone Mt. SHS Fayette Co. SHS Osborne SHS Osborne SHS Pebblebrook SHS Campbell SHS McEachern SHS Wills SHS Wheeler SHS Walton SHS Litha Springs SHS Douglas Co. SHS North Cobb SHS South Cobb SHS Marietta SHS Wills SHS 80 Below: FIRST BASEMAN of the Varsity baseball team, John Esaky had 5 homeruns and mac IY seven errors. -.i-,,,,. ! I I .T.-5-2',f'g't'?f . -'-'?.vf'.Tg,,:i::,1 I .-:..r,,.,,,,.-S-I , - I, -A+ if is - N ', -- -v. I , ll . ,.a-.- gr gf- . 1- i qi .. A.. 4 ...Ang . ' Above: SENIOR DAVID WEBB already has professional baseball scouts looking at him from Cincinnati and St. Louis.

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SHS SWIMMERS MAKE DEBUT SPLASH Top left: BOYS SWIM TEAM: First row from left: Bob Jones, Jeff Burnham, Randy Marchman. Second row from left: Jerry Nadjowski, Tom Burnham, Steve Reynolds. Bottom right: GIRLS SWIM TEAM: First row from left: Julie Oudt, Jennifer Reynolds, Merri Oudt. Second row from left: Lynn Meistu, Lisa Goldie. Top: Carry Castilo. Middle left: IT TAKES a lot of hard work and practice to become a successful swimmer, but Merri Oudt makes it look easy. Lower left: THE DETERMINATION and skill of Steve Reynolds helped the swim place high in the state tournament. The Sprayberry High School swim team, a new addition to the many sports activities that go on at Sprayberry, is the first team that has existed to represent Sprayberry. On March 8, members of the swim team who qualified went to the state meet. The qualifying members were Lynn Meistu, Julie Oudt, Merri Oudt, and Jennifer Reynolds, Jeff Burnham, Bob Jones, Randy Marchman, and Steve Reynolds qualified for the boys. Steve placed fifth in the 50 yard freestyle and sixth in the 100 yard freestyle. Bob Jones placed tenth in the 200 yard freestyle and ninth in the 500 yard freestyle. Jennifer Reynolds placed eleventh in the 100 yard breaststroke. The boys relay team placed ninth in the 400 yard freestyle. For a team's first year, the S.H.S. swim team proved they are -definitely a strong force in Cobb County swimming. V I XVI X a f 1 'sl 1 , H 'if v.:.:. 5. .., , -fu, g A . V, 7 'K X, - - v ' ,, -'H M Q. - , , yhwgwwz I I a . lg ..., . H4371 .:..',, 'M 7, 0 ? . 3,'vZ. if ' , ' ' '-- W, I ' ' 44.,fZ,:i v . f I , . 2 f - f,,7wj,ry,y,.- if .gf 3, f ' ' ' Y wj ' -4 'x M, . I .1 , . ', f -3- 82, ' , , ' 2 L N ' ' JK V. X' ' .,, tj, A ,,., .. 1-.i , ' 79

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BSWV' BASE RUNNING is a ma'or source of runs. ., , I The Jackets stole a total of 48 bases this year. I , ,tg-gfwm ,' .. , , 1 F 'K Above: WITH A TOUGH PITCHING STAFF very few people hit doubles. A North Cobb opponent reaches second base by only a few feet. N I .I Above: WITH HIS FIIFLE ARM, Jeff Whitmire only 4 allowed 11 people to steal bases out of 43 attempts. 'A :lf Left: LEADING THE JACKETS with the most strike outs, Don Johnson had 46 strikeouts and a 152 E.R.A. 81